After moving from Onslow County a year ago, I more or less lost interest in the local governmental entities and their ongoing struggles with personnel issues, budgets, public opinion, etc.

My interest or rather paramount to that was my total shock and disbelief when I read online that the Onslow County Board of Education had voted to contact a former superintendent to fill an interim vacancy that will be created by the current superintendentís retirement in August.

I canít imagine how any group of elected leaders could possibly lack the sound judgment to allow them to follow through with such a ridiculous decision. Do these board members, many of whom have been on the board for multiple terms, not recall that the former superintendent cost the board thousands of dollars in litigation to defend him against a wrongful termination lawsuit brought by a former employee; and that the former employee won the suit?

Kudos to board member Jeff Brown for standing his ground and being the only board member to vote against this motion of asinine proportions.